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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tandem Romances: A Generic Approach to the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039; as Palinode]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Structural unity is achieved by the back-to-back romances in the tale, the first a mock quest, the second a narrative that asks what men most desire (gentility, youth, beauty).  The Midas exemplum and the pillow talk of gentility are integral parts of this ambivalent narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264769">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tartarye]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Until mid-thirteenth century, the East was, in spite of some factual knowledge, the fabled land of Prester John.  Then real travel in the Tartar empire gave Europe facts just as marvellous.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tears.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers tears in devotional contexts as a model for viewing tears &quot;as a mode of discourse that is as potent as it is paradoxical: both outward and inward, involuntary and applied, and forming a distinctive voice between passive and active.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Technique in Handling Antifeminist Material in &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: An Ironic Portrayal of the &#039;Senex-Amans&#039; and Jealous Husband]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attributes January&#039;s cuckholding in MerT to &quot;his own stupidity,&quot; reading Chaucer&#039;s deployment of antifeminist motifs as deeply ironic and part of his broader thematic concern to show that &quot;everyone is morally responsible for his own acts.&quot; Chaucer&#039;s alterations of his source material clarify the irony, and the Merchant&#039;s &quot;sarcasm and venom toward January&quot; at times reinforce it. Nevertheless, the Merchant is a &quot;confirmed misogynist&quot; and May receives the &quot;fitting punishment&quot; of marriage to the &quot;despicable old knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tell-Tale Lexicon: Romancing Seinte Cecyle]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Statistical analysis, based on Mersand&#039;s still-valid assumption that Chaucer&#039;s romance vocabulary increased throughout his career, establishes different dates for the composition of different parts of SNT.  The first part was probably written in the early 1380s, perhaps as oblique &quot;avoidance behavior&quot; in connection with the Cecilia de Chaumpaigne affair.  The second part was written in the mid-1390s, when SNT was incorporated into CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275097">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tellers and Tales and the Design of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews the &quot;extreme implausibility&quot; of attributing the art of individual tales in CT to the pilgrim-narrators, and argues that the &quot;ideas and arguments&quot; of the tales belong to Chaucer. Also reviews the sequential order of the tales as found in the Ellesmere  manuscript, and compares the narrative art of CT favorably with that of TC, commenting on Boccaccio and Dante as Chaucer&#039;s models.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261899">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Temples of Venus]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tender Trap: The Troilus and the &quot;Yonge, Fresshe Folkes.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;shock of contrast&quot; between the rejection of worldly love at the end of TC and the celebration of love found in earlier sections of the poem. The address to &quot;yonge, fresshe folks&quot; (5.1835) is consistent with the protagonists&#039; youthful love, part of Chaucer&#039;s sustained, coherent sequence of details and events that invite &quot;his audience to grow up&quot; and realize that &quot;service of the god of Love . . . [is] fundamentally pagan.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272257">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tenderness and the Theme of Consolation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;tenderness&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s own feelings by examining his adaptations of the genre of consolation in BD and his techniques for evoking &quot;consolatory feeling&quot; in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268402">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Testament of Love: The Impact of the Confessio Amantis on the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In response to Gower&#039;s words to Chaucer at the end of &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; (8.2941-57), Chaucer first revised LGWP and then completely restructured the plan for CT (e.g., taking Mel away from the Man of Law and giving him a &quot;Gower&quot; tale instead).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Text and the Web of Words]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies based uncritically upon the Robinson text may have produced questionable readings in CT:  KnT, ParsT and Prol, ClT, ShT, GP, RvT, MilT, NPT.  The Hengwrt MS, currently being used for the &quot;Variorum Chaucer&quot; and by Blake, is the earliest manuscript and the best text.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to CT designed for student use, with questions for discussion, research suggestions, and a review at the end of several topical sections: (1) biography and socioliterary setting; (2) language, style, and form; (3) reading CT; (4) survey of critical approaches; and (5) Chaucer&#039;s influence and adaptations. The volume includes suggestions for further reading and a brief index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270790">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces CT as the &quot;epitome&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;literary experimentation,&quot; commenting on his social range, the unfinished nature of the work, and, especially, its generic variety--&quot;romance, fabliau, beast-fable, saint&#039;s life, miracle story, sermon, [and] moral treatise.&quot; Explores instances in which Chaucer &quot;presses genre to its limits&quot; to investigate &quot;story-telling itself.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271376">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifteen volumes comprise this reading of CT in Middle English: 1) MilT, 2) GP and RvT; 3) GP and PardPT; 4) WBPT; 5) FranPT; 6) MerPT; 7) NPT, ShT, and PrPT; 8) FrPT, SumPT, and Thop; 9) ClT and PhyT; 10) KnT [two cassettes]; 11) MLT, CkT, and ManT; 12) SNPT and CYPT; 13) SqT and MkT; 14) Mel; and 15) ParsT [two cassettes]. Volume 2 was released on CD in 2001.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268213">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Cook&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[CkT echoes important elements of Genesis, including the themes of disobedience and banishment, the seeking of pleasure, and post-Fall moratlity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275210">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Legend of Cleopatra.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. Online information indicates that this volume addresses questions about why Chaucer included his legend of Cleopatra in LGW, his sources for the account, and its success as a poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273842">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Merchant&#039;s Tale, 1662.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the phrase &quot;right of hooly chirche&quot; in MerT 4.1662 refers to a funeral rights, rather than a marriage blessing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261412">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Pardoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A dicing pun in PardT 6.696 foreshadows death.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267042">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Pardoner&#039;s Tale, 855-58]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In PardT, the youngest thief&#039;s use of &quot;capouns&quot; rather than &quot;hennes&quot; or &quot;coks&quot; functions both realistically, as an indicator of the value of the chickens, and symbolically, as a reminder of the sterility of the Pardoner.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271728">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Tale of Sir Thopas]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes sexual associations of the names &quot;Thopas&quot; and &quot;Olifaunt&quot; and in this light glosses &quot;drasty&quot; (7.923 and 930) as &quot;filthy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264335">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Thematic Particulars]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Symbolic details in Chaucer may also be thematic, e.g., the five etymologies of Saint Cecilia&#039;s name in SNT, and certain features of GP, MerT, FranT, others of the CT, and TC.  Words and phrases also are often thematic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264463">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Theory of Sound]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[HF 782-834 displays an uncanny foreknowlege of details of the modern theory of sound and wave motion, especially in lines 809-13, where, in a great creative leap of scientific imagination, the motion of water waves is transferred to the propagation of sound waves.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Theseus and the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although it is uncertain whether Chaucer knew Plutarch&#039;s &quot;Life&quot; of Theseus, in KnT the character is a mixture of the two traditions of the interpretation of Theseus:  an Apollonian rationalist in Statius (the source in Anel) and a fickle lover in Ovid (the source in HF and LGW).  KnT presents an eclectically-based, balanced, morally ambivalent Theseus, which is a mixture of the Statian and Ovidian characters, much in the pattern of Plutarch.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264108">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Third and Fourth of May]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Whereas Chauntecleer was caught by the fox on the third of May,Arcite&#039;s escape from prison and Pandarus&#039;s first visit to Criseyde took place on the fourth.  These differences in date have different meanings according to medieval         &quot;lunaria,&quot; where the third day of the lunar (not the calendar) month is regarded as inauspicious and the fourth as auspicious for making new beginnings.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275403">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Thirty Pilgrims and Activa Vita.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the number of participants in Chaucer&#039;s CT pilgrimage--&quot;Wel nyne and twenty&quot; (GP 1.24) plus the narrator--can be seen to signify the &quot;active life,&quot; consisting &quot;essentially of penitence and good works.&quot; Offers evidence that thirty signifies &quot;activa vita&quot; elsewhere in medieval &quot;framed story-collections&quot; and in medieval number symbolism, and explores the implications of such symbolism in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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